Robert F. Young
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| Europan adj. | 1962 Star Fisherman in Fantastic Stories of Imagination June 37/2 On Europa, the people are desperately unhappy, and when people are desperately unhappy they can find relief in only one way—by exploiting someone who is worse off than they are. Bringing a Europan girl a dead man is like bringing a New Earth girl a box of candy. |
| micro book n. | 1982 Universes in Asimov’s Science Fiction Aug. 52 There was a micro-book library on the ship; and on my way back from the black hole, when I wasn’t taking care of Withers, I read, read, read. |
| robotically adv. 2 | 1964 Arena of Decisions in Amazing Stories Mar. 8/2 The bright-blue blooms that had made the planet famous throughout the galaxy…were robotically cultivated. |
| spaceboot n. | 1964 Sphinx in Amazing Stories June 96/1 Actually, in combination with his snappy black spaceboots it constituted as sharp an outfit as the Terran Space Navy had ever come up with, but she certainly didn’t seem to think so. |
| space sailor n. | 1980 Haute Bourgeoisie in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan. 15/2 Originally, to explain my periodic absences…I passed myself off as a space sailor. |
| telempathic adj. | 1958 Mr. & Mrs. Saturday Night in Fantastic Nov. 57/1 The apartment, in a telempathic sense, was large enough to accommodate the whole world. |
| time storm n. | 1959 Passage to Gomorrah in Fantastic Jan. 93/1 Suddenly he remembered his passenger, remembered her apprehension about time storms. |